Being a former Windows admin, I can never remember the steps to install VM Tools on a Linux VM, so I end up searching Google each time and finding the specific steps. So I am finally posting this more for me, but I hope it will help out others as well! So here are the steps I use: 1. From the vSphere client, select the VM, Right click, select Guest, then Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. This will mount the ISO file to the VM 2. In the Install/Upgrade Tools window, select Interactive Tools Upgrade button and click OK 3. Now log onto your Linux VM as root 4. Create a mount point and mount the CD-Rom using: - mkdir /mnt/cdrom - mkdir /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 5. Unpack the Tools Tar gzip file: - Tar –xzvf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-version-build.tar.gz 6. Run the Install.pl to install VMware Tools: - ./vmware-install.pl –d ( -d will use the default answers when installing tools ) 7. Unmount the CD: - umount /mnt/cdrom And you’re done! The last few I have installed in Cent OS did not need a reboot..